So far them is no settlement of the Winnipeg labour
troubles, and the situation has not grown less serious in recent days, in spite of the discovery that a community can do much on its own behalf against a deliberate and sustained attempt to paralyse its functions and faculties. That is a useful experience both for advocates of the" sympathetic strike " and for its destined victims, who in Winnipeg have made quite a creditable appearance as amateur tramwaymen, postal sorters, and municipal employees pro tem. The Winnipeg labour demon- stration is perhaps the most thoroughly organized of all indus- trial demonstrations, and it appears to be spreading westward to Edmonton and Calgary. But the success of sympathetic striking as an act of war upon society carries with it the seeds of its own death.
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